Noel Nightingale Follis helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and life changes.
01About Noel
Noel Nightingale Follis helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and life changes. She also supports those coping with trauma, grief, addiction, intimacy concerns, and challenges like ADHD and compassion fatigue. Noel is identified as LCPC, which stands for Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois.
She communicates in plain language and aims to make starting therapy less intimidating. Noel’s approach is straightforward and conversational. She creates a space where clients can speak openly about thoughts and feelings without judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions combine listening with practical techniques so people leave with usable steps they can try between meetings. She draws on methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and client-centered work. Those methods are used to address symptoms and to build skills for daily life, like managing stress, improving sleep, and coping with mood shifts.
Noel also uses relationship-focused tools when people want help with partnership issues. With five years of clinical experience, she offers steady support across a wide range of concerns. Noel has worked with individuals and couples and tailors sessions to each person’s goals.
She emphasizes collaboration and helps clients set clear, manageable goals so progress feels real. Noel practices in Illinois and conducts sessions in English. She welcomes questions from people who want to learn how therapy could fit into their life and what a first session might look like.
02Credentials
- LCPC (Illinois)
- License 180.016803 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1578063954 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Noel lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Methods Noel names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
These are the methods Noel names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It emphasizes identifying values and taking small actions that move a person toward a life that matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, aims to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with practical strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change behaviors. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and empathy, giving clients space to lead the conversation while the therapist reflects and supports their process.Noel will work together with each client to decide which combination of methods fits best. That means talking about your goals, preferences, and what feels most useful in early sessions. The decision is collaborative and can shift as needs change over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect and share between sessions. These options increase flexibility and help people keep consistent work on their goals.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does Noel most often address?
Noel works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family strains, trauma and grief, addictions, sleep and eating issues, ADHD, and related concerns.
What is Noel's general therapeutic style?
She keeps sessions conversational and practical, listening first and then offering tools and small experiments to try between meetings.
What experience does Noel bring to sessions?
Noel has five years of clinical experience and has worked with both individuals and couples across a range of issues.
What are Noel's credentials and where does she practice?
She is listed as LCPC and practices in Illinois.
Which languages can sessions be conducted in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Noel offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How does cost and scheduling work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Noel?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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